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Out of the Age
Out of the Age
"Longevity is the gift of the 20th century. Learning what to do with it is the challenge of the 21st century." (more…)
Consideration of Longevity City vol. 2
Consideration of Longevity City vol. 2
Architecture, as a way of organizing human relationships across time and space, is subject to a strong orthodoxy about where and how certain functions should be located in the urban landscape. Some specific aspects of human life - old age, illness, care - seem to be assigned to certain physical spaces, separate from the spaces of everyday life. (more…)
Consideration of longevity city
Consideration of longevity city
The longevity of the population, also seen in our country's silver hues as a 'silver tsunami', (although I still don't understand it why people aren't happy to live longer, only to see themselves aging) represents a challenge of enormous proportions at all levels, comparable to that faced by architects who designed modern cities that welcomed the mass exodus from the countryside, or those who rebuilt cities after the war. (more…)
They Say that Prevention is Better than Cure….
They Say that Prevention is Better than Cure….
But are we doing so in terms of renewing the spaces around us and how these urban spaces affect us? Whether it concerns our apartment, school, office, nearby park, train station or hospital....
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